Russian intelligence operatives - and their allies on the US far right - have infiltrated this site, and Congress and the media, spreading their propaganda to try to undermine American support for Ukraine.
Are you going to let them?
Re-post this if you continue to support Ukraine.
Michael Szafranski, coconspirator in billion-dollar Rothstein Ponzi scheme, now heads Kushner Companies Florida acquisitions and is on Surfside’s planning and zoning board - overseeing controversial plans for UAE's Damac to develop collapsed Surfside site.
Szafranski was a key player in the $1.3-billion fraud - he worked for investors as an “independent verifier” while secretly receiving payments from Rothstein.
Charles McGonigal, Former Special Agent In Charge Of The New York FBI Counterintelligence Division, Pleads Guilty in SDNY to Conspiring To Violate U.S. Sanctions On Russia - and to money laundering connected to 2021 agreement for services to Oleg Deripaska.
Charges carry a maximum sentence of five years in prison.
He is scheduled to be sentenced by Judge Rearden on December 14, 2023.
USA v McGonigal Information
https://www.justice.gov/media/1310496/dl?inline
Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Matthew G. Olsen, the Assistant Attorney General of the Justice Department’s National Security Division, and James Smith, the Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), announced today that CHARLES MCGONIGAL, a former Special Agent in Charge (“SAC”) of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (“FBI”) Counterintelligence Division in New York, pled guilty to conspiring to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (“IEEPA”) and to commit money laundering in connection with his 2021 agreement to provide services to Oleg Deripaska, a sanctioned Russian oligarch.
The Elements of Offense in the Trump January 6 Indictment
DOJ doesn't have to prove Trump believed he lost. They have to prove he lied in attempt to thwart Electoral College Act.
https://www.emptywheel.net/2023/08/03/the-elements-of-offense-in-the-trump-january-6-indictment/
There's a lot of nonsense apology for Trump masquerading as journalism claiming that if he can show he believed his own lies he'll be acquitted. Those reports misunderstand the crimes with which Trump has been charged and what the government needs to prove for a jury to find Trump guilty.
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And it was Williams's story that directly resulted in Campbell resigning, hours after the news story dropped.
10/10 journalism, no notes.
Three prominent First Amendment lawyers uniformly agreed that Fox’s $787.5 million deal was record-setting, massive, and would be too painful for the network to ignore.
It's more than half of Fox's earnings from 2022.
Why they say you shouldn't believe the naysayers. https://lawandcrime.com/2020-election/dont-get-it-twisted-foxs-787-5m-defamation-deal-is-record-setting-massive-and-painful-experts-say/
Smartmatic is 6-10x larger than Dominion as a company, based on revenue.
This is VERY important, because it affects the damages Smartmatic can be awarded at trial, which then affects the value of any settlement.
So Rupert Murdoch and Fox News have a MUCH bigger problem coming.
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